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The Reconnect team aims to support individuals with identified needs on release from prison or returning to Hampshire from an out of area prison location. Reconnect will operate under the wider auspices of the Hampshire and IOW Liaison & Diversion Service.

Do you believe that a person’s health needs, and past experiences can be linked to their criminal offending? By identifying and reducing health needs can vulnerable people be supported to make positive changes and reduce the risk of reoffending?

You will work with Peer Support Workers who have lived experience to engage with those service users who are most difficult to engage to identify and support their unmet needs as they leave prison. With good leadership skills and compassion, you will provide a supportive network for peer 
support workers to develop and grow a peer led approach to bridge the known health inequalities of prison users.

As a successful candidate, you will work closely with criminal justice partners to coordinate support for individuals in the community, on release from prison according to their identified needs. As the Engagement Lead in Hampshire, you will take a leadership role in the recruitment, training, inducting, and line management of the Peer Support Workers across the service, being responsible for the daily management of the Peer Support Workers and their supervision.

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

• To support with the ongoing quality assurance of the Reconnect within the Liaison and Diversion Service in Hampshire.
• To supervise Peer Support Workers in their role of using their own lived experience to support those with health vulnerabilities who are currently in contact with criminal justice 
  services.
• To proactively make preparations with persons with assessed health vulnerabilities, as identified by clinicians, that are due to leave HMP Winchester to assertively support their engagement with services and support networks in their local community.
• To use a person-centred approach to promote the continuity of established, positive working relationships during pre-sentencing phase of the criminal justice system. The post-holder will strive to maintain and build upon this existing relationship post sentencing. This will involve allocating cases and tasks where appropriate.
• To form and utilise effective working relationships with partner agencies, such as the 
  police, court staff, probation services, mental health services etc…
• To be adaptable in the role to be able to offer support to meet the wider liaison and 
  diversion service needs, when required.
• Collect and utilise service user experience feedback.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire.

We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer. We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you’ll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare:

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.

Benefits of working for us include:

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance.
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave.
• Free parking across Trust sites

Berkshire Healthcare helps people manage their health in their local area, through a range of specialist and community services across the county. We promote independence and quality of life through community and mental health services and aim for seamless delivery of the best care in the right place. We get to know communities and the people in them so we can deliver the best services that meet their health needs.

Our team of 4,300 staff provide specialist mental health and community health services to a population of around 900,000 within Berkshire. We provide healthcare to people in their own homes and from different sites across the county.

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.

Appointment to any position is conditional on the satisfactory completion of the core NHS Employment Checks Standards. Information disclosed in your application will be checked and any offer of appointment may be withdrawn if you knowingly withhold information or provide false or misleading information.

Please ensure your application is submitted with a valid email address for your referees in order to minimise delays in the recruitment process. Short-listed applicants will be contacted by email, therefore applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly.

Applicants are advised that as a result of the high level of response we receive for some of our vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date.

Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust is committed to improving the health of its staff, patients and the wider community by providing a smoke free environment. A smoke free policy is in operation and smoking is not permitted on any of the Trust’s sites.

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